I always wanted to be more than my brown skin, when you told me I was sweet like cinnamon.
HINNAH MIANEvery beauty mark, a country to roam. Every stretch mark, a river to cross.
More Hinnah Mian Quotes
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I want to separate writing from heartbreak but I don’t know how.
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Read the scars on my body like braille, for I no longer know how to tell a story that belongs deeply to me but is no longer mine.
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My silhouette is an ocean, your lips a sailor.
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I want to be something to pray for but I don’t know how to be.
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Living is not living when I am living without you.
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Hope lingers like a moon.
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And what am I but the smallest of footnotes in the universe’s everlasting memoir?
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Every beauty mark, a country to roam. Every stretch mark, a river to cross.
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I like to trace the ghosts of your fingers on the back of my hand. They read- I don’t know how to hold without you.
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She has learned so much from dying only to be born again.
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Love transcends oceans and I love you in every country we are both made of.
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Seek refuge in the space between my bones.
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Allow me to introduce myself, A warning and a welcoming all at once.
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He reminds me of the shadow between silences.
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I have lived too many lives to be only one thing, and instead of attempting to mesh them into a form of a human being, I have decided to love every jagged edge of mine.
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